I am a 4th gen JW or was when I left in the mid 90s. I remember growing up in the cult its hard to learn critical thinking when you have not known it. Also we did not have the internet or the thousands of sites to show us the history. We had very limited places to look. Randy Waters was one of the first to have a site of former witnesses. Now its easy to jump on youtube and find history videos of the cult.
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A challenge to believers
by Half banana innothing is ever fixed, laws change and religious myth evolves.
no doubt the habiru (hebrew) forebears of the jews when arriving in the levantine highlands cherished their stone age practices and sacred rituals.
child and human sacrifice was a grim stone age social mechanism to make for balance, loyalty and control within a tribe.there was no connection then with an almighty spirit, polytheism ruled the hebrew mentality.
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Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett
by freddo inso this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.
oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.
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What an asshat
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Special Pioneer Vow Of Obedience And Poverty Contract - Is This Legit?
by pale.emperor insomebody posted the contract on exjwreddit: https://i.redd.it/1u8808gy6ni01.jpg.
it appears to be signed by howie ernest rutledge.
im assuming this is howie rutledge tran, former assistant to the gb?.
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Reminds me of the billion year contract of the other big cult scientology.
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Why I'm rejoining the JWs
by Fred Franztone indear brothers and sisters.
after many years outside of the truth, living as an atheist, i have come to realise that i have been on the wrong path.
the fool has said in his heart that there is no god, and i have been a fool.
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Nice sarcasm. Love the joke.
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Satan is "bullying" you through family
by neat blue dog injust thought i'd share this ridiculous picture from a recent watchtower.
in recent years, the word bullying has been thrown around a lot, and often misused by instigators and subtle bullies themselves.
in this picture we learn that your loving family who wants to continue sharing a family tradition with you, who hands you a beautifully wrapped present with a smile on their face, is in fact bullying you.
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I look at it this way, if it were not a problem that cult members are leaving they would not be doing this. LOL I hope it keeps going. Let them dry up like the pus sac they are.
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I HATE JW funerals
by jws injw funeral last night.
it was about half an hour from start to finish.
they opened with basic facts about the person.
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I sat through my mothers funeral knowing she said just before she died that when her dad my grandfather was gone she was leaving the cult. The cult members thought she was still a believing JW. She was not. It was nothing but a cult recruitment fest. I would not be surprised to see them handing out watchtowers at the exit.
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Does praying really matter? Where is the evidence?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inmatthew 7:7 jesus says: ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
for every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
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If a man talks into a oatmeal box to god he is crazy, take away the oatmeal box and he is religious.
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In one sentence, can you pinpoint a single event that woke you up?
by Brian J inmy turning point: serving on a child abuse judicial case.
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Coming awake is not a light switch. Its more of a dimmer switch that goes from a low glow to a bright light. For me the change in the def of generation in 95 was the last straw. I had been told from the 60s the world is going to end soon and can not go on much longer. I watched people in the early 70s give up jobs and prepare for the end. 95 and the Generation change was the biggest shit on the rank and file to date.
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The John Cedars Channel on YouTube taken down after posting a critique of leaked videos for Regional (District) Convention
by oppostate inthe wt is at it again it seems.
playing dirty as it can, trying to silence dissenters.. the john cedars channel on youtube has been taken down after the posting of a video critique of regional (district) convention leaked videos.. sounds like something putin would do in russia.
you know what they say, birds of a feather fly together--what a murder of crows all of'em!.
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This tells me that these type of videos are having an affect on the cult
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Just watched the Tony Tight pants video
by blownaway inthis tony morris is such a douchnozzle.
what a controlling asswipe.
watching him makes me want to punch him in the face, but also laugh out loud.
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This Tony Morris is such a douchnozzle. What a controlling asswipe. Watching him makes me want to punch him in the face, but also laugh out loud.